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Published 2020-02-02
Abstract
The ocelot faces conservation problems throughout its distribution, mainly due to illegal hunting and habitat transformation. It has been documented that the ocelot diet consists mainly of small nocturnal terrestrial mammals, especially rodents, although it has also been recorded that they can feed on possums, squirrels, rabbits, primates, iguanas, frogs, birds, fish, insects and terrestrial crabs.This note is relevant to the feeding behavior of ocelots in Mexico because it describes a photographic event of an ocelot feeding on a bat, the record was obtained with camera traps placed in the southern core zone of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. These cameras were installed to record that species of fauna visitrificiales drinkers (water sources constantly supplied by members of the project) that were placed as part of a pilot project in the years 2018 and 2019 and aim to supply water in the RBC for use of wildlife. As a result of this effort, this photographic record was obtained of an ocelot individual feeding on a bat associated with an artificial drinker.
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